Quotes about ignorance
ignorance ignorant reason
The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it. Frank A. Clark
ignorance fifth
The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance. Lyndon B. Johnson
ignorance roots poverty
Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance.
ignorance argument behinds
Behind every argument is someone's ignorance. Louis D. Brandeis
ignorance purpose causes
Behind every argument is somebody's ignorance. Rediscover the foundation of truth and the purpose and causes of dispute immediately disappear.
ignorance knowledge kind
Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance. Lord Byron
ignorance knowledge pride
Our conjectures pass upon us for truths; we will know what we do not know, and often, what we cannot know: so mortifying to our pride is the base suspicion of ignorance. Lord Chesterfield
ignorance knowledge people
A seeming ignorance is very often a most necessary part of worldly knowledge. It is, for instance, commonly advisable to seem ignorant of what people offer to tell you; and, when they say, Have you not heard of such a thing? to answer, No, and to let them go on, though you know it already.
ignorance government errors
Absolute power can only be supported by error, ignorance and prejudice.
ignorance ignorant
The most ignorant are the boldest conjecturers.
ignorance fighting weapons
Education is the best weapon through which we can fight poverty, ignorance and terrorism. Malala Yousafzai
ignorance people fool
Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected.
ignorance knowledge law
Knowledge has always been important, of course. The ancient Egyptians did not raise the stones for the pyramids relying on the incantations of their gods. The waters in the irrigation canals of the great Indus Civilisation did not flow according to the laws of ignorance. Knowledge has always been power and wealth. Mahathir Mohamad
ignorance rocks enlightened
The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
ignorance order roots
All problems in life arise from some weakness of mind. All weakness of mind is due to the mind's ignorance of its own essential nature, which is universal and the source of infinite energy and intelligence. ... In order to root out any problem of life it is only necessary to be brought out of ignorance, to be brought to knowledge.
ignorance animal reptiles
The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how to live with these carnivorous beasts and poisonous reptiles because of our ignorance. Mahatma Gandhi
ignorance space stupidity
There is no limit to stupidity. - Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity. Gene Wolfe
ignorance ideas found
When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
ignorance fool poor
And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before.
ignorance errors faults
We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.
ignorance ignorant statistics
Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
ignorance justice social-justice
Nothing is worse than active ignorance.
ignorance giving honest
To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.
ignorance games self
The fact that I'd never really seen myself on screen allowed for a blissful ignorance. It didn't feel like a movie. I didn't have that self-consciousness. It was a game that I was playing. Ellar Coltrane
ignorance cases should
There is no case where ignorance should be preferred to knowledge - especially if the knowledge is terrible. Edward Teller
ignorance writing history
In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better. Edward de Bono
ignorance two scripture
Unfortunately, 19th-century scientists were just as ready to jump to the conclusion that any guess about nature was an obvious fact, as were 17th-century sectarians to jump to the conclusion that any guess about Scripture was the obvious explanation . . . . and this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion. Gilbert K. Chesterton
ignorance years secret
A secret may be sometimes best kept by keeping the secret of its being a secret. It is not many years since a State secret of the greatest importance was printed without being divulged, merely by sending it to the press like any other matter, and trusting to the mechanical habits of the persons employed. They printed it piecemeal in ignorance of what it was about. Henry Taylor
ignorance good-man language
The English love for privacy is proverbial, and has not been exaggerated. A stranger who strikes up a conversation is looked upon with suspicion - unless he happens to be an American, when his ignorance of good manners is indulged. Henry Steele Commager
ignorance names giving
Chance ... must be something more than the name we give to our ignorance. Henri Poincare
ignorance men ignorant
And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep. Heraclitus
ignorance
It is better to conceal ignorance than to expose it.
ignorance monsters womb
Ignorance is the womb of monsters. Henry Ward Beecher